House Clearance Maidstone Kent

House clearance Maidstone: As a Kent based company, Jeffrey Avery and Associates has been providing a complete house clearance service to members of the public, legal professionals, executors, and administrators, in Maidstone and surrounding areas, for over 35 years and is now one of the leading Maidstone house clearance companies. If you require any type of property to be cleared of its contents, and left clean and tidy so that it can be sold, or transferred to a landlord, we can help.

House Clearance in Maidstone: A fully comprehensive service.

We specialise in full house contents clearance. We can tackle any Maidstone house clearance job, of any size and in any location, even in circumstances where access is restricted. (eg Flats with no lifts,etc.)

We are also specialists in clutter clearance, and will be pleased to clear properties containing years of accumulated posessions, or which have abnormal amounts of general household items,
sometimes as a result of illness, (eg compulsive Hoarding or OCD), or where the occupants were previously unwell and unable to care for themselves or their property, resulting in insanitary, dangerous conditions. We are expert clutter clearers.

I would like to thank Jeffrey Avery and Associates for the very careful, thorough and efficient job they made of clearing my late father's flat of his remaining possessions.

Extra to the excellent standard of the clearance, having dealt with Jeffrey personally, I found him to be only extremely helpful and responsive... Read more testimonials...

Becky Anderson.

Our Commitment to Quality

We are aware that a house clearance is often required in difficult circumstances, such as bereavement, and we pride ourselves on our expertise in carrying out our services with care, discretion, and with as little disruption as possible.

In particular, we will always:

Take great care not to damage communal hallways, entrances, garden paths, gates and fences.

Use closed vehicles so that personal effects are not visible to the public

Ensure that confidential documents, photographs, etc, if discovered during a house clearance, are brought to the attention of the relatives.

Ensure that staff are bound by a confidentiality agreement which prevents them from disclosing any details of the house clearance, to any third party.

Have regard for environmental issues in every aspect of our operations, and make every effort to re-use, recycle, or dispose responsibly of all materials we handle as a result of a house clearance.

Jeffrey Avery and Associates is a DOE registered waste carrier, and we comply with all applicable legislation with regard to the management and disposal of waste. We also carry full third party liability insurance.

Additional Services:

We provide a host of related, additional services, including deep cleaning of neglected houses, and the reinstatement of overgrown and out of control gardens, garden clearance, Central Heating, Water and Electricity Isolation, a comprehensive Locksmith Services, and a Hoarding Service. Our aim is to simplify the process of making your property ready for sale or transfer to a landlord.

Free advice and quotation

Our initial consultation and all our quotations are free and without obligation. Contact Jeffrey Avery on 0800 567 7769 for immediate attention.

Some interesting facts about Maidstone, Kent

Saxon charters (c975) show the first recorded instances of the town's name; de maeides stana and maegdan stane with the possible meaning of either stone of the maidens, or possibly stone of the people. The latter meaning may refer to the nearby megalith around which gatherings would take place. The name evolved through medestan/meddestane as reported in the Domesday Book until, in 1610, the modern name appeared. It has also been suggested that the name derives from stones set into the river to allow clothes to be rinsed in the cleaner water away from the banks of the river.

Neolithic finds have revealed the earliest occupation of the area; and the Romans have left their mark also: the road through the town and evidence of villas. The Normans set up a shire moot, and religious organisations established an abbey at Boxley, as well as hospitals and a college for priests. Today’s suburb of Penenden Heath became a place of execution in medieval times.

Maidstone Town Charter was adopted in 1549, despite a short retirement of the new Charter of 1551 established the city as the township. City Charter was ratified in 1619 under James I, and the coat of arms, a golden lion and the representation of the river, was designed (in terms of arms "or, Fez wavy azure three rounds on behalf of Red Chief Red Leopard passant or gardant"). Recently, these weapons have been added to the Director a white horse (representing the Invicta, the motto of Kent County), Golden Lion, and Iguanodon. Iguanodon associated with the discovery of 19 local century, the fossilized remains of dinosaurs, such as now exhibited in the Museum of Natural History in London.

During the Civil War battle took place here in 1648, when the parliamentary troops to victory. Andrew Broughton, who was mayor of Maidstone in 1649 (and also the secretary of the Supreme Court of Justice) is obliged to report the death sentence of Charles I, and the plate today in Maidstone Town Centre memorialises Andrew as the "mayor's murder King" (Killer of Kings).

Maidstone have been right in the prison in the city since 1604, the prison is currently located north of the city and was completed in 1819. There is a feature of the barracks in the city since 1797, when it was built. Current Invicta Barracks is home to the Royal Engineers, 36 Engineer Regiment, which includes two Gurkha Field squads.

In economic terms, the history of Maidstone has been developed around the river and the surrounding countryside. Paper mills, quarrying stone, beer and textiles flourished. Whatman paper manufacturer James and his son invented wove paper (Whatman) to Turkey Mill 1740, a breakthrough in the history of printing.

The modern town of Maidstone includes several villages and outlying settlements previously (see Geography below).

The offices of the County Council to the north of the city center was built in Portland stone between 1910 and 1913. Maidstone General Hospital opened on the outskirts of the city in 1983, replacing the West Kent General Hospital, which opened 150 years before Marsham Street. New Maidstone General Hospital is located north of the former Oakwood Hospital (originally the Kent County Asylum), which was closed in the mid-1990.

Many residents are employed in the service of selling, administrative, or within the city, there are many fields of industry around the jobs that the city offers. Part of the workforce moving to other cities, including London.

Previously, one of the county constituency of Maidstone (once held by Benjamin Disraeli) until 1997, when the limit changes have led to his break, the city is now divided into electoral districts, and Maidstone Weald and the Faversham and Mid Kent. Current members of the European Parliament and of the Maidstone Weald is a conservative, Helen Grant, the man who replaced the Conservatives, and incumbents Ann Widdecombe to retire in 2010 elections. Since 2001, Member of Parliament for Faversham and Mid Kent is another conservative, Hugh Robertson.

The city is located, and is the main town of the district local government in Maidstone, which includes the surrounding countryside. The city is divided into twelve local government departments Allington, Bridge, and Downswood Otham, East, Fant, Heath, High Street, Park Wood, Shepway North, Shepway South, Southeast and North. These services have thirty Fifty-five seats in Maidstone Town Council. Since 2010 Maidstone council elections, 28 seats held by the Council of the National Coalition Party, 23 Liberal Democrats and four independents.

Maidstone Borough Council is responsible for the operation of local services such as recreation, garbage collection and housing, while Kent County Council is responsible for education, social services and trading standards. The two councils are involved in urban planning.